Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Once outside, the freshmen collected in a body, and cheered right lustily. This incensed the sophomores, who promptly formed and made a rush upon eighty-nine. For fully half an hour the classes surged back and forth, unmolested by proctors or watchmen, and then dispersed. So far as could be judged in the darkness eighty-eight got the better of the rushing...
...students of the University of Missouri, have a paper called Truth, of which we see it remarked that: "If it were crushed to earth, it would have its value as top-dressing." The editor writes with a far western flavor. To him the faculty of the university of Missouri are "cranks, idiots, sneaks, knaves and dead-beats." One of the female teachers is vividly alluded to as a "pop-eyed apparition," and the editor has recourse to poetry to describe one of the faculty...
While to the student some topics of college journalism become slightly exaggerated in importance from the undue emphasis bestowed upon them, it is far otherwise to the college newspaper man. He feels the public pulse and recognizes the needs of the students for some object of care and interest. And there is to-day one thing which demands the active attention of every student who feels an interest in the matter of importance to the welfare of the whole university. An annual cry goes up from the office of the Co-operative Society over the paucity of members and therefore...
...fair and accurate criticism of style has been rendered possible. Of course, in the case of the class crews, such trouble is scarcely worth the while, but it seems to us that the university might profit to no small extent by acting on the suggestion. Who can tell how far an expedient of this sort might help us in winning a victory...
...name to his will. His father and mother both made their marks. The whole family connection were tradespeople, but his mother by her marriage came into possession of property enough to give a college education to her oldest son. The education of that one delicate youth has had far reaching consequences...